NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. David Altchek, who performed more than 2,000 Tommy John surgeries and was the New York Mets longtime ...

The reliever, who was placed on the 15-day injured list on July 4 with a partial UCL tear, will undergo the procedure next ...

Dedniel Núñez was a great story last season, but the story of his 2025 season is over before it even really started. The New ...

Tommy John pitched in the big leagues from 1963 to 1989 and won 288 games. Only 25 MLB pitchers have won more. But check out his 27 years of statistics, and you'll see one year is blank: 1975 ...

New York Yankees manager Aaron Boone says pitcher Clarke Schmidt will undergo a second Tommy John surgery that will sideline ...

He also showed up big time in the biggest game of his life, throwing a complete game shutout in game one of the College World ...

Starting pitcher Clarke Schmidt will "likely" require Tommy John surgery, manager Aaron Boone said on Saturday, according to ...

Yankees pitcher Clarke Schmidt likely needs a second Tommy John surgery that would sideline him for the remainder of this ...

Tommy John elbow reconstruction surgery was once so rare that when the procedure’s namesake had it in 1974, many believed he’d never pitch again. Now, it’s so common that one doctor has ...

FARGO — The professional baseball career of Tommy John was rescued in 1974 when surgeon Frank Jobe did something that was previously thought unattainable: replace a ligament in the elbow with a ...

And therefore, Tommy John surgery is now part of America's pastime," Ahmad said. Among active MLB pitchers, an astonishing 35% have had the surgery, up from 27% in 2016.

Alongside arthroscopic surgery and ACL reconstruction, Tommy John is one of the biggest advancements in sports medicine in the last 50 years.